Re: Inconsistent capabilites associated with MPOL_MOVE_ALL

Michael Kerrisk
2006-03-15T01:12:00Z

> > Von: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> > Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > > Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Use CAP_SYS_NICE for controlling migration permissions.
> > > > ahem. Kind of eleventh-hour. Are we really sure?
> > >
> > > This may still get into 2.6.16???
> >
> > Well it changes the userspace API.
>
> No -- both of these changes affect interfaces
> that are only part of the unreleased 2.6.16.
> (MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is new in 2.6.16.)

Replying to self...

Ooops sorry about the last -- I see that Christoph is changing stuff in
addition to what I was proposing... (But it makes sense to me, from a
consistency point of view.)

Cheers,

Michael